(Source: Alberta Farmer Express, May 17, 2012)
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific Railway’s new Board of Directors could hit its first obstacle as early as Wednesday, when the railway’s unionized engineers, conductors, traffic controllers, trainmen and yardmen officially are in strike position. The workers, who are represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and have been without a labour agreement since Jan. 1, voted last month 95 per cent in favour of authorizing their bargaining committee to launch a strike “if necessary.”
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